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  1. Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe collection

    The collection consists of a booklet used as part diary, part autograph book, containing poetry and signatures written during and after the Holocaust by Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe. It also contains paper scraps re-used to write on in subcamps of Buchenwald by an unknown author (potentially Marianne Kemeny Santos Wolfe) and a cloth identification number patch.

  2. Hannah Starman research collection

    Consists of photocopies of original documents collected from various archives in Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and Italy, pertaining to Jewish life in Slovenia from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. Incudes copies of birth and death certificates; community membership lists; individual, community and industrial property listings; deportation lists; documents related to the aliyah of Slovenian Jews and the subsequent confiscation of their property; individual files pertaining to expropriation of Jewish properties by the Nazis and later by the Communist regime; documents per...

  3. Photograph collection from the Russian State Archive of Film, Video and Photo Records

    Contains 57 photographs and 11 film negatives depicting Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union and Europe, war crimes, liberation of concentration camps by the Red Army, corpses of Soviet prisoners of war, Russians and other people tortured by German solders; Judicial proceedings in the trial of the German criminals.

  4. Book

    Medical book

  5. Documentation of the Finanzministerium (Finance Ministry), related to Württemberg-Hohenzollern, 1945-1949

    Documentation of the Finanzministerium (Finance Ministry), related to Württemberg-Hohenzollern, 1945-1949 History of the organization [institution]: In autumn 1945, after the end of World War II, the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern was established inside Germany, which included the French Occupied Zone of Württemberg and the Sigmaringen region. The government of the new state was comprised of six Landesdirektionen (administrative areas) that supervised various subjects (law, culture, interior matters, and other subjects), including finance. Its name was changed later to the Finanzminister...

  6. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mizra

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Mizra Memorial booklet: "Memoirs of wandering, 1942-1945", by Zila Kitron and Sonia Shabtai (the daughters of Yocheved and Aharon Schwartz), 1991; Condensed testimony: Yitzhak Antos Kveler.

  7. Beehrt sich darzubieten : Paradies Amerika [Book] Paradies Amerika

    Book by German author whose writings were banned during the Third Reich.

  8. Transcarpathia

    Silent with Hungarian intertitles. "Teleki Pal Grof". miniszterelnok latogatast tett a Rutenfoldon es felkereste a szlovak legitamadas erte teriileteket." VS, high angle, group of dignitaries meet, handshakes, police and military in uniform. Crowd, flags waving. Pan of snow-capped mountains in the BG to group of officers and political figures standing on a rooftop or a balcony, looking out over the crowd below. Quick shot of Hungarian flag waving. Wreath draped on statue of an eagle in a public square, onlookers. MLS, through archway, several men assembled in a courtyard. MS, MCU, CU, pan c...

  9. John Scott Small collection

    Collection consists of correspondence and one photograph sent to Holton Ramsay Small [donor's brother] in the United States from a family in Austria seeking assistance to leave Europe, and one letter written to him from a displaced person in Salzburg, in English.

  10. Sylvia Simon Tansey collection

    Three letters written to Sylvia Simon, from her cousin in Vienna (and subsequently of Chicago), Siegfried Feiger, describing his family's experience prior to and following their immigration in 1939.

  11. Tami Ben Or collection

    Consists of four photographs pertaining to donor's life in prewar Budapest. The donor survived the war using false name of Marishka Lenart in the village of Rakocz Ligett, Hungary.

  12. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Michael Zylberberg and worn in Birkenau and Mauthausen.

  13. Liberation of Paris, France

    (INV1485) Wide shot of street filled with ruins on the ground or some kind of small blockade constructed from ruins. 00:07 American Army cars driving down the street. Civilians approach the car to shake hands with soldiers. 00:23 MS of civilians approaching soldiers. Crowds looking and waving at the camera. 00:29 Larger crowds. 00:35 Two boys approach and kiss soldier 00:52 CU of soldier speaking next to a young boy. 00:57 Crowds advancing quickly down the street 01:05 (INV1484) Armed soldiers (French resistance) walk around Shell gas station. 01:21 Tank with Free French Forces symbol. 01:2...

  14. Cohen family collection

    The collection consists of postcards sent to Morris Cohen (donor's paternal grandfather) primarily from his sister-in-law Esther Feyge (Fagel)regarding their family in Rutki Kossaki, Poland, 1939-1940; postcard sent to Morris Cohen from family friend in Rutki Kossaki regarding the murder of family members in 1942; Also included in the collection are two (2) leather wallets.

  15. Kormes family collection

    The collection consists of immigration papers and other documents, as well as a child's red dress, an Israeli flag, and a prewar German prayer book documenting the donor's parents' and sister’s experiences in prewar Germany, surviving the Patria bombing, their detainment in Atlit (or Athlit) clearance camp, living in Tel Aviv, and their immigration to the US in 1946.

  16. Ilona Nagy collection

    Two fabric pictures created by Ilona Nagy, whose husband had them framed in the shop owned by the Jewish family of Mór Pécsi and his son-in-law Gábor Anhalzen. Pécsi was murdered in Auschwitz along with his wife, daughter and other members of the family. Anhalzen is believed to have survived the war. He was in the forced labor service.

  17. Wornian family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Wornian family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Henry and Sally Wiener collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Henry and Sally Wiener during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Dorothy L. Jones Miller collection

    The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, dolls, UNRRA patches, name bracelet, metal pins, dolls, doilies, other woven and embroidered items, wooden boxes, pewter set, silver pins and spoon - gifted to Ms. Jones or purchased by her...

  20. Helmut Rosendahl collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David Badges, Westerbork scrip, testimony, and a speech relating to the experiences of Helmut Rosendahl during and after the Holocaust in the Netherlands and Germany.